1953 UAP Sighting — FBI Files
On July 9, 1953, a Bureau liaison representative contacted the office regarding an unusual incident involving an animal resembling a monkey, but lacking hair. The animal was reportedly found with a missing tail and blood around its mouth, prompting speculation about its origin an
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 163 of 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_7, a declassified FBI vault file released by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is dated July 9, 1953 and located in Unknown location.
What the file records
On July 9, 1953, a Bureau liaison representative contacted the office regarding an unusual incident involving an animal resembling a monkey, but lacking hair. The animal was reportedly found with a missing tail and blood around its mouth, prompting speculation about its origin and how it sustained its injuries. Investigators determined no further action was needed.
Witnesses on file: McRae and Atlanta Constitution newspaper staff.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the file is: no investigation being conducted in this motter by this Bureau. All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office unless otherwise stated, meaning the federal government has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series), atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.